I filed you in the folder and took you out during the holidays
The circles round your eyes were telling
I never meant to cause you trouble
My dear, my love, my only one
Whose long and slender limbs forever cast their shadow across the light above my bed

The curtains halfway open to the lights across the harbor
Why I could not be happy with what we had
I don’t know
Many times I’ve been here, we used to be so happy when we were in love
Somewhere there’s a church with a big high steeple piercing the clear New England sky up on the mountain of love
Up the murky river where we swam so many times before with naked bodies and silky hair
We’ll never be that way again, your circles stay the same and I put you away each year never to get any older
Because the dark took you and your long limbs away
And I had to stay behind here

Tell me it will not be long to wait till I see you again and you walk into my room and look down on me in my soft warm bed ready for the day to come so that I can touch you and it will be okay again.